socdl v0.1.7

What's changed in v0.1.7

Fixed

• Use Instaloader's supported interactive login API and prompt for a username
  when omitted. Failed authentication does not save a session.
• Preserve Netscape #HttpOnly_ cookies when importing browser sessions.
• Match cookie domains against Instagram's exact domain or its subdomains;
  reject lookalike domains and JSON cookies without a domain.

socdl v0.1.6

What's changed in v0.1.6

Fixed

• Instagram posts and reels could not be downloaded at all (case-sensitivity
  bug). URL detection matched its patterns against a lowercased copy of the
  URL, so the captured shortcode came out lowercased (ddrpu-qewtm) while
  Instagram shortcodes are case-sensitive (DdrPU-QEwTm). Instaloader therefore
  looked up a shortcode that does not exist and every attempt failed with
  "Fetching Post metadata failed" — which the fallback engine then reported as
  "Instagram needs login", sending users down the wrong troubleshooting path.
  Detection now matches the original URL case-insensitively, so the target keeps
  its original casing.

Added

• socdl login to create a reusable Instagram session, with two ways in:
  • socdl login --cookies cookies.json — import cookies exported from a browser
    (JSON array, a JSON object with a cookies key, or Netscape cookies.txt).
    Only instagram.com cookies are kept; sessionid and csrftoken are
    required.
  • socdl login --username you — interactive instaloader login.
  • socdl login --status shows whether a saved session exists;
    socdl logout deletes it.
• The session is stored as a pickle in the platform data directory
  (instagram.session) and is reused automatically by both the in-process and
  subprocess download paths, so private and age-gated posts resolve on the first
  engine in the chain.

Changed

• Config.instagram_login is now documented and treated strictly as a session
  file path. It was previously passed to instaloader's
  load_session_from_file(), whose first argument is a username, and to
  instaloader --login, which likewise takes a username — so setting it never
  loaded a session.
• The login hint no longer points at socdl config, which only edits
  configuration and never creates a session.

socdl v0.1.5

What's changed in v0.1.5

Added

• Media info panel: before each download, socdl now shows an info panel with
  title, uploader, duration, date and engagement counters (views, likes,
  comments, shares/reposts) whenever the source exposes them (YouTube, TikTok,
  Facebook, X, Instagram, à). Missing fields are simply hidden.
• /info <url> command to look up a link's details without downloading
  (falls back to the last pasted URL when no argument is given).
• Engagement counters are persisted to history: /history now shows
  Views / Likes / Comments columns (only when data is available). Existing
  databases are migrated automatically.
• Best-effort metadata via a new probe() step in the engines/router: yt-dlp
  (metadata extraction) and instaloader (Instagram like/comment counts).

Full Changelog: v0.1.4...v0.1.5

socdl v0.1.4

Full Changelog: v0.1.3...v0.1.4

socdl v0.1.3

Full Changelog: v0.1.2...v0.1.3

socdl v0.1.2

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.1.2

socdl v0.1.1

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

socdl v0.1.0

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Erzambayu/socdl/commits/v0.1.0